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Want a tip on how to take good garden pictures ? Pick up your camera and go out into a garden. You can't get good pictures if you don't take any pictures. Put yourself in a position to make something happen. April 2 was a day to take photos in my own garden. It was [...]

This will be my shortest Gardening Gone Wild post yet. Not because I have nothing to say, nor because my words are so poetically haiku. Not because it is the holiday and few are reading gardening blogs, nor because I am trying to stay away from religious sentiment. I am on a cruise ship in [...]

"Why, when stabilization is built into many cameras and lenses, is a tripod so important ?" asked a student at a recent workshop. I always ask my students to bring tripods to our photography workshops and stabilization is not the main reason. It is true that a good tripod will provide a rock solid, steady [...]

I was recently commissioned to photograph a very special magnolia in a very special, private garden. The resulting photo was to be a surprise gift, but with a limited budget, I only had access to the garden during a single afternoon when the owner was away. It is the job of the professional to make [...]

When I attended the California Spring Trials this past April I ran into fellow photographers Ramon van der Reijden and Ted Langeveld of the Visions Pictures photo agency in Netherlands. In my previous post about the Trials I mentioned the phototographer's challenge - each of us would photograph the same flower and see what we come [...]